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Noether's theorem links the symmetries of a quantum system with its conserved quantities, and is a cornerstone of quantum mechanics. Here we prove a version of Noether's theorem for Markov processes. In quantum mechanics, an observable…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-08-22 John C. Baez , Brendan Fong

We show that some abstract results on propagation of fixed points for completely positive maps on $C^*$-algebras provide a natural approach to unify recent Noether type theorems on the equivalence of symmetries with conservation laws for…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2025-11-04 Aurelian Gheondea

Quantum Markovian systems, modeled as unitary dilations in the quantum stochastic calculus of Hudson and Parthasarathy, have become standard in current quantum technological applications. This paper investigates the stability theory of such…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-06-24 Yu Pan , Hadis Amini , Zibo Miao , John Gough , Valery Ugrinovskii , Matthew R. James

Noether's theorem in the realm of point dynamics establishes the correlation of a constant of motion of a Hamilton-Lagrange system with a particular symmetry transformation that preserves the form of the action functional. Although usually…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Jürgen Struckmeier

Noether's theorem provides a powerful link between continuous symmetries and conserved quantities for systems governed by some variational principle. Perhaps unfortunately, most dynamical systems of interest in neuroscience and artificial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-15 John J. Vastola

We introduce an generalized action functional describing the equations of motion and the variational equations for any Lagrangian system. Using this novel scheme we are able to generalize Noether's theorem in such a way that to any…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-09-07 C. M. Arizmendi , J. Delgado , H. N. Núñez-Yépez , A. L. Salas-Brito

When discussing consequences of symmetries of dynamical systems based on Noether's first theorem, most standard textbooks on classical or quantum mechanics present a conclusion stating that a global continuous Lie symmetry implies the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-10-04 Daddy Balondo Iyela , Jan Govaerts

Since the seminal work of Emmy Noether it is well know that all conservations laws in physics, \textrm{e.g.}, conservation of energy or conservation of momentum, are directly related to the invariance of the action under a family of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-03-16 Gastão S. F. Frederico , Matheus J. Lazo

The probabilistic description of finite classical systems often leads to linear kinetic equations. A set of physically motivated mathematical requirements is accordingly formulated. We show that it necessarily implies that solutions of such…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-11-06 Constantinos Tzanakis , Alkis P. Grecos

Noether's theorem is a fundamental result in physics stating that every symmetry of the dynamics implies a conservation law. It is, however, deficient in several respects: (i) it is not applicable to dynamics wherein the system interacts…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-05-16 Iman Marvian , Robert W. Spekkens

Noether's Theorem is familiar to most physicists due its fundamental role in linking the existence of conservation laws to the underlying symmetries of a physical system. Typically the systems are described in the particle-based context of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-05-04 Sophie Hermann , Matthias Schmidt

The aim of this note is to discuss the relation between one-parameter continuous symmetries of the dynamics, defined on physical grounds, and conservation laws. In the Hamiltonian formulation, such symmetries of the dynamics in general…

Classical Physics · Physics 2017-11-29 Franco Strocchi

Noether's theorem, which connects continuous symmetries to exact conservation laws, remains one of the most fundamental principles in physics and dynamical systems. In this work, we draw a conceptual parallel between two paradigms: the…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-24 Tim Zolkin , Sergei Nagaitsev , Ivan Morozov , Sergei Kladov

Noether's theorem is one of the fundamental laws in physics, relating the symmetry of a physical system to its constant of motion and conservation law. On the other hand, there exist a variety of non-Hermitian parity-time (PT)-symmetric…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-09 Q. C. Wu , J. L. Zhao , Y. L. Fang , Y. Zhang , D. X. Chen , C. P. Yang , F. Nori

What can one infer about the dynamical evolution of quantum systems just by symmetry considerations? For Markovian dynamics in finite dimensions, we present a simple construction that assigns to each symmetry of the generator a family of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-06 Georgios Styliaris , Paolo Zanardi

We extend the DuBois-Reymond necessary optimality condition and Noether's symmetry theorem to the scale relativity theory setting. Both Lagrangian and Hamiltonian versions of Noether's theorem are proved, covering problems of the calculus…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-07-03 Jacky Cresson , Gastao S. F. Frederico , Delfim F. M. Torres

We consider the Lagrangian formulation with duplicated variables of dissipative mechanical systems. The application of Noether theorem leads to physical observable quantities which are not conserved, like energy and angular momentum, and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-08-07 N. E. Martínez-Pérez , C. Ramírez

Noether's calculus of invariant variations yields exact identities from functional symmetries. The standard application to an action integral allows to identify conservation laws. Here we rather consider generating functionals, such as the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-08-16 Sophie Hermann , Matthias Schmidt

The dynamics of a physical system is linked to its phase-space geometry by Noether's theorem, which holds under standard hypotheses including continuity. Does an analogous theorem hold for discrete systems? As a testbed, we take the Ising…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2011-04-05 Silvio Capobianco , Tommaso Toffoli

We examine the assumptions behind Noether's theorem connecting symmetries and conservation laws. To compare classical and quantum versions of this theorem, we take an algebraic approach. In both classical and quantum mechanics, observables…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-11-04 John C. Baez
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